An amazing TEDx posting: Eric Whitacre: A choir as big as the internet

Anyone interested in collaborative efforts should go check this out: http://www.ted.com/talks/a_choir_as_big_as_the_internet.html What you will find a collabrative effort on the behalf of 185 people in 12 countries, who participated in a “virtual choir”, sending in clips (245 I believe in total!) to be arranged into one piece that is beautifully done! Overcoming the noise issue of the various submitted clips …

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Is your business still relying on an old FAX machine & multiple styles of printers?

If your business is like many that we provide service for, you may still require the use of a FAX machine. In fact you may have a conglomeration of devices that you use in order to have the best of all worlds, maybe your office looks something like this: A laser printer to print forms and documents cheaply, and quickly. …

It’s Tax Day! Upgrade your Intuit Quickbooks to celebrate!

Still running an older version of Intuit Quickbooks or Quicken? Why not celebrate getting through tax season with a new version!? Homeland Secure IT is a reseller of Intuit products and can save you 20%. It doesn’t matter if you are in Greenville, the Upstate or even South Carolina, we can save you money on the product if purchased through …

THE SKY IS FALLING! Okay, maybe not, but DNS issues may affect your internet access in May

Let me bore you a few minutes with something not so trivial about DNS (Domain Name System). DNS is where all those lookups take place that convert hostnames to IP addresses. A hostname is a name you can more easily remember than the IP address, for instance telling someone in a radio commercial to visit your website at  http://216.33.19.35 would …

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Time and Attendance Systems are Still Evolving

If you run a business that has more than a handful of employees, chances are you are using at Time & Attendance System already, and the chances are good that it is an analog time clock, the kind you stick a card into (after lining it up for the correct day and whether you are clocking in or clocking out) …

Follow up to earlier post about phone books being a thing of the past

In an early blog post http://www.homelandsecureit.com/blog/2010/03/when-you-need-computer-repair-do-you-search-online-or-use-a-phone-book/ I asked what you do when you need computer service or computer repair in Greenville and received a couple emails and a reply or two in person. Most people agreed with what I said and that is, in the event of needing service, they turn to Google or some other search engine. An article …

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Cisco Product Shortage Causing Some Business Customers To Try SonicWall & WatchGuard

If you are in need of a Cisco ASA 5505 or 5510 Security Appliance for your application, chances are, you are not going to be happy when you call your reseller to order one. The device is in very short supply and in most cases, back-ordered until April, May or June, depending upon the supplier. As a Cisco dealer, Homeland …

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Trend Micro Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware Sales & Specials For Small Businesses in Greenville / Upstate SC

We are offering small businesses a discounted rate on Trend Micro Anti Virus / Anti-Malware products, including their award winning Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Standard for those without mail servers, and Worry-Free Business Security Advanced for those with Microsoft Exchange mail servers or Microsoft Small Business Server. Worry-Free Business Security is perfect for a the small office that has …

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Greenville Small and Medium Business Online Data Backup Solution / Servosity

Not a week goes by that I don’t have at least one conversation with a small or even medium sized business owner who has no backup strategy in place at all. Today’s conversation was courtesy of a rather intelligent individual from Greenville who I have known and respected for some time now. He shall remain anonymous in order to spare …